Susy's flowers: or, 'Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy', by the author of 'Hope on'.

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1871
 

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Page 30 - Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows: The young birds are chirping in the nest; The young fawns are playing with the shadows; The young flowers are blowing toward the west — But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly ! 10 They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the...
Page 86 - I should like them to know there is room for them all, And that Jesus has bid them to come.
Page 109 - O'er the world's tempestuous sea ; Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but thee ; Yet possessing Every blessing, If our God our Father be. 2 Saviour, breathe forgiveness o'er us ; All our weakness thou dost know ; Thou didst tread this earth before us ; Thou didst feel its keenest woe ; Lone and dreary, Faint and weary, Through the desert thou didst go.
Page 86 - I think when I read that sweet story of old, "When Jesus was here among men, How he called little children as lambs to his fold, I should like to have been with him then.
Page 47 - LET us with a gladsome mind Praise the Lord, for he is kind ; For his mercies aye endure, Ever faithful, ever sure.
Page 81 - But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
Page 49 - For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that fear Him.
Page 136 - I thank Thee more that all our joy Is touched with pain ; That shadows fall on brightest hours ; That thorns remain ; So that Earth's bliss may be our guide, And not our chain.
Page 86 - Yet still to His footstool in prayer I may go, And ask for a share in His love ; And if I thus earnestly seek Him below, I shall see Him and hear Him above.
Page 83 - What brought them to that world above, That heaven so bright and fair, Where all is peace and joy and love ? How came those children there...

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